Ernest Hemingway
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The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...
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"The Sun Also Rises," penned by the iconic American author Ernest Hemingway and published in 1926, stands as a literary masterpiece that captures the zeitgeist of the post-World War I generation with unparalleled poignancy. This novel, often hailed as the quintessential work of the Lost Generation, weaves a tapestry of love, disillusionment, and existential searching against the backdrop of a Europe grappling with the aftermath of war.
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English
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A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an...
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2021.
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English
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"Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts...
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English
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A collection of short stories by one of the great American authors of the twentieth century Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains the following fourteen stories: The Undefeated In Another Country Hills Like White Elephants The Killers Che Ti Dice La Patria? Fifty Grand A Simple Enquiry Ten Indians A Canary for One An Alpine Idyll A Pursuit...
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Criterion collection volume 176
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[2003]
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English
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Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.